Zusammenfassung der Ressource
I Wouldn't Thank You For a Valentine
- This poem is about a women that thinks valentines day
has become very commercial and does not show actual
love. She also thinks presents do not mean anything/do
not show love.
- Key quotes
- "I'm up to hear with Amore!"
- "The whole Valentine's Day Thing is trivial and commercial"
- "A cue for unleashing cliches and candyheart motifs"
- "Should 10 red-padded satin hearts arrive
with sticky sickly saccharine Sentiments
in very vulgar verses"
- "If you sent me a postcard
with three X's and told me
how you felt / I wouldn't
thank you, I'd melt"
- "Take more than singing Telegrams, or pints of Chanel Five, or sweets to get
me ordering oysters"
- Structure
- lots of enjambment
- Lots of punctuation
- 4 stanzas
- Form
- 1st person
- Themes
- cynical about love